Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
At the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ scientists research the causes and consequences of far-reaching environmental changes. Their task is to deliver knowledge, instruments and policies concerning the complex systems and relationships in the environment within limited timeframe for use by politicians, industry and society, in order to help them to make decisions and solve specific environmental problems. Apart from practical needs, environmental research must also meet general scientific needs. This is a two-fold challenge with the requirement that todayŽs environmental research dominated by natural sciences is increasingly interlinked with human and social sciences as well as environmental law.
Address
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
Permoserstraße 15
04318 Leipzig
Saxony
Phone: +49 341 235-1800
Fax: + 49 341 235-1388
email: gf(@)ufz.de
Activities:
- Funding
Focus of Research:
- Acidic minig lakes
- Biodiversity
- Biotechnology
- Climate Change
- Contaminated groundwater
- Environmental technology
- Governance
- Health
- Integrated assessment
- Microbial diversity, Environment and Health
- River basin management
- Urban Regions
Networks:
- Helmholtz Association
Coordinated projects
- Biodiversity parameters and landscape dynamics in European cultural landscapes Details of Biodiversity parameters and landscape dynamics in European cultural landscapes
- Collaborative project: BIOLOG joint project DIVA Jena III: Functional importance and mechanisms of biodiversity conservation using the ecosystem, subprojects: STOFF/MYCO und PHYTO Details of Collaborative project: BIOLOG joint project DIVA Jena III: Functional importance and mechanisms of biodiversity conservation using the ecosystem, subprojects: STOFF/MYCO und PHYTO
- FOR 918: Symbiotic and saprobic fungi as link between plant derived carbon and soil food webs Details of FOR 918: Symbiotic and saprobic fungi as link between plant derived carbon and soil food webs
- Genetic diversity and landscape structure Details of Genetic diversity and landscape structure
- GLOWA Elbe III - Subproject 5: Socio-economic analysis of the water management Details of GLOWA Elbe III - Subproject 5: Socio-economic analysis of the water management
- SPP 1090 AG 2: Influence of laccase production by fungi and mycorrhiza on formation and stability of organic matter in agricultural and forest soils Details of SPP 1090 AG 2: Influence of laccase production by fungi and mycorrhiza on formation and stability of organic matter in agricultural and forest soils
- SPP 1315: Quantification of active interfaces with respect to dissolved chemicals in unsaturated structured soil Details of SPP 1315: Quantification of active interfaces with respect to dissolved chemicals in unsaturated structured soil
- Substance outputs of agricultural land by drainage, preferential ground water flow, surface flow: model and experimental validation Details of Substance outputs of agricultural land by drainage, preferential ground water flow, surface flow: model and experimental validation
Coordinated projects of subordinate institutions 7
Involved in research projects:
- Alteration of soil hydraulic properties at the soil-root interface - impact on soil water balance at the field scale Details of Alteration of soil hydraulic properties at the soil-root interface - impact on soil water balance at the field scale
- Application of stable Carbon-, Nitrogen- and Sulphur isotopes to characterise and indicate fluxes in agricultural systems under different land use and environmental conditions Details of Application of stable Carbon-, Nitrogen- and Sulphur isotopes to characterise and indicate fluxes in agricultural systems under different land use and environmental conditions
- Bacterial abiotic cellular stress and survival improvement network (BACSIN) Details of Bacterial abiotic cellular stress and survival improvement network (BACSIN)
- Climate tolerance in barley - from induction to gene function Details of Climate tolerance in barley - from induction to gene function
- Collaborative project: Innovative characterisation and improvement of the feeding value of cereal grains (GrainUp) – Subproject 7 Details of Collaborative project: Innovative characterisation and improvement of the feeding value of cereal grains (GrainUp) – Subproject 7
- Ecological, genetic and climatic determinants of range expansion: a case study on Ceratocapnos claviculata in the native and invaded range Details of Ecological, genetic and climatic determinants of range expansion: a case study on Ceratocapnos claviculata in the native and invaded range
- Gross ammonification, gross nitrification and N net mineralization in temperate forest soils at low temperatures Details of Gross ammonification, gross nitrification and N net mineralization in temperate forest soils at low temperatures
- Plant induced weathering of minerals in the subsoil - release of 'non-exchangeable' potassium from 2:1 layer minerals (TransMinK) Details of Plant induced weathering of minerals in the subsoil - release of 'non-exchangeable' potassium from 2:1 layer minerals (TransMinK)
- Prevalidation for testing the toxic effects of inhaled active substances (gases) after direct exposure of lung cells of people in the Luft-/Flüssigkeitsgrenzschicht Details of Prevalidation for testing the toxic effects of inhaled active substances (gases) after direct exposure of lung cells of people in the Luft-/Flüssigkeitsgrenzschicht
- PROTECTOR - Recycling and upgrading of bone meal for environmentally friendly crop protection and nutrition Details of PROTECTOR - Recycling and upgrading of bone meal for environmentally friendly crop protection and nutrition
- SPP 1090 AG 2: The role of root debris from growing maize plants for the formation of stabilized soil organic soil matter – enlightenment and quantification Details of SPP 1090 AG 2: The role of root debris from growing maize plants for the formation of stabilized soil organic soil matter – enlightenment and quantification
- SPP 1315: Bioavailability of hexadecane during the degradation of litter from C3 and C4 plants in different soil compartments and its influence on the induction of alkane degrading genes from prokaryotes Details of SPP 1315: Bioavailability of hexadecane during the degradation of litter from C3 and C4 plants in different soil compartments and its influence on the induction of alkane degrading genes from prokaryotes
- SPP 1315: Biogeochemical interface formation in soils as controlled by different components Details of SPP 1315: Biogeochemical interface formation in soils as controlled by different components
- SPP 1315: Detection and imaging of selected organic chemicals on soil interfaces in the millimeter- to micrometer-range by micro GC/LC- and DESI mass spectrometry Details of SPP 1315: Detection and imaging of selected organic chemicals on soil interfaces in the millimeter- to micrometer-range by micro GC/LC- and DESI mass spectrometry
- SPP 1315: Highly-resolved imaging in aggregated soils: Which are the interfaces formed by interaction of water flow oxygen transport and biodegradation? Details of SPP 1315: Highly-resolved imaging in aggregated soils: Which are the interfaces formed by interaction of water flow oxygen transport and biodegradation?
- SPP 1315: Modification of pore surface physicochemistry in unsaturated media by formation of biogeochemical interfaces - Contact angle analysis and relevance for sorption and transport of solutes and colloids Details of SPP 1315: Modification of pore surface physicochemistry in unsaturated media by formation of biogeochemical interfaces - Contact angle analysis and relevance for sorption and transport of solutes and colloids
- SPP 1315: The Detritusphere as Biogeochemical Interface for Bacterial and Fungal Degradation of MCPA and Phenanthrene Details of SPP 1315: The Detritusphere as Biogeochemical Interface for Bacterial and Fungal Degradation of MCPA and Phenanthrene
- SPP 1315: Visualization and quantification of processes at biogeochemical interfaces with magnetic resonance imaging Details of SPP 1315: Visualization and quantification of processes at biogeochemical interfaces with magnetic resonance imaging
Subordinate Institutions:
- Department Economy - Details of Department Economy
- Department Environmental Biotechnology - Details of Department Environmental Biotechnology
- Department of Soil Ecology - Details of Department of Soil Ecology
- Department of Soil Physics - Details of Department of Soil Physics
- Division of Water and Soil Sciences - Details of Division of Water and Soil Sciences
- Lysimeter Falkenberg - Details of Lysimeter Falkenberg
Coordinated collaborative projects:
- Mata Atlântica Details of Mata Atlântica
Work package leader of collaborative projects:
- Mata Atlântica Details of Mata Atlântica
- GLOWA Elbe II 2004 - 2007 - Global Change Impacts on the Water Cycle in the Elbe River Basin - Risks and Options Details of GLOWA Elbe II 2004 - 2007 - Global Change Impacts on the Water Cycle in the Elbe River Basin - Risks and Options
- GLOWA Elbe III 2007 - 2010 - Impact of global change on the water cycle in the Elbe region -- Details of GLOWA Elbe III 2007 - 2010 - Impact of global change on the water cycle in the Elbe region --